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In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious.
Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me.
Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals.
As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.
Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.
Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.
These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.
One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.
Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.
It has always been recognized that chess is an art, and its best practitioners have been described as artists.
I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.
I want people to look at me in the future and feel that there's this Asian hip-hop artist who's fresh and hot.
On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.
I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.
Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.
We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.
The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.
I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.
Many of the artists are not pretending to have an objective point of view. They're revealing the subjectivity.
I think that artists provide questions, not answers. We provide provocations rather than fully formed objects.
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
There are makeup artists sometimes that have a jade face roller. If you're really tired those are really good.
An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.
I really enjoy doing remixes, but I don't want to be known as just a 'remix artist' for the rest of my career.
Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist.
Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.
The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.
Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.
To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.
Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.
Every artist gets asked the question, 'Where do you get your ideas?' The honest artist answers, 'I steal them.'
Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.
The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes... when he has nothing better to do.
Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
If you are intimidated by the artists who came before you, understand you too have a place, right next to them.
I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul